JUPITERIAN

Protosapien TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY

Abyss-scraping doom/sludge diatribes from São Paulo

The mantric clang ushering in Jupiterian’s second LP holds a wealth of tension in its protosapien claw. The subsequent ground-crack of doom from Mere Humans, enhanced by tremoloswells of black metal riffage, releases that tension before settling into a loping gait, with vocal bellows reaching out from the abyss. It acts as an apt summation of their sound, where funeral doom’s suffocation of all light and BM’S atmospheric austerity meet the respective sturm und drang of death and post-metal. On paper, this collision of various extreme sonics sounds positively cataclysmic. But by the time the charred Neurosis feel of

Earthling Bloodline finishes, there’s a sense that while Jupiterian have stylistic certainty, musically, they’re still honing that requisite world-devouring instinct. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Mizmor, The Ruins Of Beverast, Culted DEAN BROWN